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13-letter words containing o, u, r, l

  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • surplus store — a shop that sells used items, or items previously purchased but unused, and no longer needed. The items are often military, government or industrial excess
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • tetrapetalous — having four petals.
  • thaumatolatry — the worship of or excessive admiration for marvels and miracles
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • thoracolumbar — of the thoracic and lumbar regions
  • thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
  • to hold court — If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous.
  • toilet humour — scatological or vulgar jokes
  • toll thorough — a payment exacted by a municipal government for the right to use a highway, bridge, or the like; toll.
  • tour en l'air — a turn executed in the air.
  • tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trade journal — periodical of a profession
  • transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
  • treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • tremulousness — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
  • triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
  • triple double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • trous-de-loup — a conical or pyramidal pit with a pointed stake fixed vertically in the center, rows of which are dug in front of a fortification to hinder an enemy's approach, formerly used chiefly against cavalry.
  • trucial coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
  • truelove knot — a complicated ornamental knot, especially a double knot having two interlacing bows, regarded as an emblem of true love or interwoven affections.
  • trujillo alto — a city in NE Puerto Rico, SE of San Juan.
  • tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
  • tung-oil tree — tung tree.
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
  • ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
  • ultra-violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
  • ultracautious — extremely or excessively cautious
  • ultramarathon — any footrace of 50 or more miles.
  • ultraorthodox — extremely or excessively orthodox, esp with regards to religion
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • ultrarational — extremely rational
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